The Color of Liberty

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword / Fred Constant ix
Introduction: Race, France, Histories / Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall 1
1. Race: The Evolution of an Idea
Francois Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race / Pierre H. Boulle 11
Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference: Blacks, Jews, and the Abbe Gregoire / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 28
Of Monstrous Metis? Hybridity, Fear of Miscegenation, and Patriotism from Buffon to Paul Broca / Claude Blanckaert 42
2. Representations of the Other
Race, Gender, and Virtue in Haiti’s Failed Foundational Fiction: La mulatre comme il y a peu de blanches (1803) / John Garrigus 73
Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles / Laurent DuBois 95
Sex, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Novels of Elissa Rhais and Lucienne Favre / Patricia M. E. Lorcin 108
French Images of Race on Product Trademarks during the Third Republic / Dana S. Hale 131
Sambo in Paris: Race and Racism in the Iconography of the Everyday / Leora Auslander and Thomas C. Holt 147
3. Colonial and Global Perspectives
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Variation and Difference in French Racism in Colonial Indochine / Michael G. Vann 187
Constructions and Functions of Race in French Military Medicine, 1830–1920 / Richard Fogerty and Michael A. Osborne 206
Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere / Gary Wilder 237
Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics / Dennis McEnnerney 259
4. Race and the Postcolonial City
Identity under Construction: Representing the Colonies at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 / Lynn E. Palermo 285
Who Speaks for Africa? The Rene Maran-Blaise Diagne Trial in 1920s Paris / Alice L. Conklin 302
Catholics, Communists, and Colonial Subjects: Working-Class Militancy and Racial Difference in Postwar Marseille / Yael Simpson Fletcher 338
From Red Belt to Black Belt: Race, Class, and Urban Marginality in Twentieth-Century Paris / Tyler Stovall 351
Contributors 371
Index 377